Solution Architect

Full job description

Soft Steer is seeking a highly skilled Solution Architect with hands-on experience to lead a mature Scrum team. This role demands strong technical mentorship, strategic project execution, and effective cross-functional collaboration. The successful candidate will drive engineering excellence, team development, and process optimization to deliver scalable and high-quality solutions that align with our business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership: Provide guidance to team leads on developing scalable architecture, ensuring secure coding practices, refactoring, and implementing engineering best practices.

Critical Technical Engagement: Actively participate in essential processes such as architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical debt management to uphold system integrity and scalability.

Project Management: Oversee delivery and execution by managing project timelines and resource allocation, while enhancing engineering velocity in alignment with our Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

Mentorship: Foster the technical and leadership growth of Squad Leads through support in performance reviews, constructive feedback, and career development initiatives.

Engineering Culture: Cultivate a strong engineering culture that champions ownership, psychological safety, collaboration, and continuous improvement across all squads.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Drive cooperation with Product, QA, DevOps, Data, and Design teams to ensure seamless execution and maximum impact.

Process Evolution: Adapt engineering processes (Agile/Scrum/Kanban), lead retrospectives, and innovate improvements to enhance team efficiency and inclusivity.

Qualifications and Skills:

· 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a minimum of 3 years in a technical leadership role, demonstrating significant expertise in .NET, Angular, Kotlin, Swift and C#.

· Proven experience leading multiple squads and mentoring Squad Leads to build high-performing teams, with a comprehensive understanding of web and mobile development (Android & iOS).

· Strong knowledge of scalable architecture, clean code practices, and the implementation of CI/CD pipelines.

· Proficient in agile methodologies and product-led development environments.

· Excellent communication skills with a capacity for team development and aligning technical execution with business objectives.

· Familiarity with DevOps practices or cloud platforms, particularly Azure.

· Hands-on experience in mySQL, Mongo, MS SQL, Server database administration.

· Sound experience in database problem determination and solving.

· Good understanding of Data Modelling and Data Warehouse techniques.

· Hands-on experience with Git repositories, including pushing code and managing pull requests (PRs).
Exciting Benefits we offer:

• Market-leading Salary
• Medical Coverage IPD & OPD – Spouse & Kids
• Provident Fund
• Leave encashment
• Daily in-house meal
• Work Life Balance
• Recreational area for in-house games
• Sporadic On-shore training opportunities
• Monthly entertainment activities
• Domestic tours
• Outdoor and indoor dinners
• Friendly work environment

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From Rs1.00 per month

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Lahore: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)

Experience:

• technical leadership role: 3 years (Preferred)
• software engineering: 10 years (Preferred)

Language:

• English (Preferred)

Location:

• Lahore (Preferred)

Work Location: In person